How’s Your Poop?

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Yeah, you read that right.

Okay Deepu, really? You’re going to talk about poop? Is this the best place for that?

Yup.

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Because God created us as not just spiritual beings, but as physical beings (one way we differ from angels).

And God created everything, so if there is any place to be able to talk about anything at all, it’s the church. If we turn people down from talking about something they sincerely want to talk about, they’ll go somewhere else to talk about it.

Okay, so maybe I don’t want to sincerely talk about poop, but there is a good reason for me bringing it up – because there’s a saint for that (phone apps don’t cover nearly as much ground as saints do).

Seriously. We have a patron saint for bowel disorders.

This also serves as a good reminder for us to take advantage of the saints in heaven. We are not alone. We never have been. Even when we feel like there is no one we can turn to, there is Jesus. But God and the Church gives us more than that – regular human beings who walked the earth just like us, but they were extraordinary in their love and dedication to God. They became saints, and they are constantly praying for us. Many of them have a patronage to either a location or a topic.So…

St. Bonaventure is the patron saint of bowel disorders. He suffered from them as a child, and was healed through the prayers of St. Francis of Assisi. He later became a theologian, and of course a saint after he died.

No matter what you’re going through. No matter what your struggles, you can always pray to God for help. And you can ask the saints to pray for you also—there is strength in numbers (remember, we don’t worship saints. Just like we’d ask a friend to pray for us or for a family member, we go to the saints to ask the same thing.).

Also, if you aren’t used to asking people to pray for you (yet), it might be easier to ask a saint (especially when it comes to a bowel disorder)